Below The Beltway

Twenty years after his first run for the White House ended in embarressment after he plagarized a speech by British politician Neil Kinnock, Delaware Senator Joe Biden is running for President again:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, who has fought against sending more U.S. troops to Iraq, on Wednesday joined the crowded field […]

Amazingly, Europe is still cleaning up from the damage caused by the worst war in human history:
Deep in the Pomeranian forest, hidden among the groves of scraggly pine and birch, the World War II bomb squad is hard at work.
At 11:15 on an overcast winter morning, Alfred Buchholz carefully guides his spade into the sandy […]

Yes, I am totally geeking out.

H/T: Jackie Passey

I didn’t blog all that much, if at all, about the special election that took place today to fill a vacancy on the Prince William County Board of Supervisors in my home district.
Part of that was because I was profoundly disturbed by the way that some Republican bloggers were acting. Quite honestly, Jeff Dion’s sexual […]

Michael Barone thinks it’s time that America ended it’s obsession with the Clinton and Bush families:
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton. It sounds like the Wars of the Roses: Lancaster, York, Lancaster, York.
To compare our political struggles to the conflicts between rival dynasties may be carrying it too far. But we have become, I think, a nation […]

At least that’s what historian David Bell argues in the Los Angeles Times:
IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. Imagine that six hours after that, there had been […]

I’m not quite sure what it is, but there’s got to be one hell of a backstory between the Bauer boys. On the one hand we have Jack, the cold-blooded former military CTU agent intent on doing whatever it takes to save his country. On the other we have Graem, who apparently followed Poppa Bauer […]

This has been making its way around the Virginia blogosphere today.

You Are Most Like Ronald Reagan

People tend to think you’re a god - or that you almost ruined the country.
But even if people do disagree with you, they still fall victim to your charms!

What Modern US President Are You Most Like?
H/T: Vivian Paige

That’s what Miami is planning when Fidel Castro finally dies:
MIAMI — The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl whenever Cuban president Fidel Castro dies.
Discussions by a committee appointed earlier this month by the city commission to plan the event have even covered issues such as a theme to be […]

In this week’s Newsweek Fareed Zakaria takes a look at the implications of the decline of the United States as the world’s sole superpower:
We are certainly in a trough for America?with Bush in his last years, with the United States mired in Iraq, with hostility toward Washington still high almost everywhere. But if so, we […]